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Trans_Beskid_Radio_Volume_4_Extended

by AKASHIC RECORDS

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This will likely be the last edition of radio works with the appellation Trans-Beskid in the title. Although I am still working with radio captures from the summer of 2020 which were made in Poland near the Slovakian border, I have refined my process to include captures from last summer in Romania and Bulgaria and live input form radios here in Poznan on the evening the two pieces were performed. Adding the microfreak synth and adding working with tones derived from the overtone series of the Schumann frequency changes the game entirely. It's more of a contemplation --  which in the etymologies is like putting many temples together -- contemplon of earth resonance. There is something in this that involves a 25 year cycle of work with shortwave radios and my plunge into deep listening strategies. As the light of Alvin Lucier leaves our sphere, I can only heave an electro-magnetic sigh and moan at the passing of someone I never met and yet celebrate, with this offering, one whose work helped me feel that same resonance more profoundly. Word up Alvin. Over and out. -- JG

Timothy Williams writes about the listening experience:
"Trans_Beskid_Radio exists in the tension between narrative (melody) and trance, between time and egolessness. The ambient, meditative noises of everyday life, expressive of what is, of being, become harnessed in time, while the glimmers and blips of radio transmissions, recalling road trips as well as lonely late night pit stops, bring to mind Thich Nath Hanh's observation about radio waves: the fact that we don't see them but know they are there may be true of (other) beings we have known. Untethering us from the narrative of melodic line and from the suffocation of uninterrupted being, we become capable of stepping outside of our bodies, dancing on the ceiling looking down at ourselves.
The experience also gives new meaning to Keats's unheard music sweeter; could it be not just inchoate musings but the memory of a song, or something in between, where we hear a fragment and fill in the gaps, half-heard, half-created?"

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released December 1, 2021

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AKASHIC RECORDS Poland

Guitarist, composer, sound designer, field recordist, shortwave radio poet, blending electro-acoustic, electronica, spectral comp., cracked circuits, sounding organic objects with an ear towards earth voices. Studied Javanese and Balinese gamelan and theories of Partch and Xenakis. Working with dance/theater/butoh co. Djalma Primordial Science. More than 400 concerts throughout Europe since 2005. ... more

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